begin quote On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:32:20 -0500 Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 December 2003 8:43 am, Spider wrote: > > > Not really, overall I advice against ReiserFS because of their > > horrid recovery-tools. Jfs I've had mixed success with but overall > > it felt good. I haven't evaluated xfs because so far it hasn't been > > mainline when I've started to work on repartitioning. > > > > Ext3 isn't the fastest in the race, but it has a darn good support > > team. > > That matters a lot for me. > > //Spider > rationale for ext2 vs reiserfs for /usr/portage and /var/tmp comes from benchmarking tests, here : http://fsbench.netnation.com/ Compare this fex : http://fsbench.netnation.com/new_hardware/2.6.0-test9/scsi/bonnie.html You want to look at the 50k tables (mid page) where they are fairly well tied, except when you look at %CPU. Reiserfs has a -horrid- way of dealing with the processor, and requires a lot of cpu munching. > I've never lost one bit of data when having to do a reboot after a > lockup (I do lots of kernel and app testing with Gentoo ~x86 systems, > and Mandrake cooker). Look one thread above this, subject: Subject: [gentoo-user] ReiserFSCK woes > The reiserfs journaling has always worked perfectly for me. I do work > with generally small files, which reiser is suppose to excel at. I > generally defer to Spider's expertise, but since it became clear that > he was not a reiserfs fan, I thought I'd offer a different opinion, > based on my personal experience with reiserfs. As usual, YMMV, and > reiserfs might not be the best choice in all cases. Reiser has its uses, for a squid cache server fex. But I wouldn't put it even near a partition with data I value. it may be "stable" for users, and so on. that doesn't matter if the fsck tools are so horridly handicapped that they cannot recover data without forcibly rebuilding the tree. Try doing "emerge sync" wait until its mid-process and press alt+sysrq+b. (cvs up is actually worse ;7 ) . As said, I ran reiserfs for a while, but won't ever do it again because of how it cannot recover when it goes down the drain. And if you really want to know how bad, dislodge the IDE cable some while you're working on the disk. (I dont guarantee the drive will survive though ;). you get udma crc errors... keep working as you don't notice your disk does that, emerge -u system is a good thing since you left it overnight... Then come back, reinsert cable, reboot, and watch the show. put short: Reiser has performance, but uses CPU power more than anything (not good when compiling). And it can't recover data once things really go down the drain. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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